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yes since it is not yet possible to revive someone who has been frozen and won't be for a long time a vast majority of the research going on in Cryonics is dir

yes since it is not yet possible to revive someone who has been frozen and won't be for a long time a vast majority of the research going on in Cryonics is directed towards the preservation process. Vitrification is a major development and will only get better as time goes on however these chemicals are not one size fits all and we have a long ways before they are able to protect all vital organs without damaging others https://cryonics.org/history-timeline/ https://cryonics.org/history-timeline/

p1esk 3y ago
The link you posted says the last improvement to their process was done in 2004. So in the last 20 years, the vitrification has not gotten better. Is it because no one has been doing any research, and if so, why not? If you look at any other hard but important problem: curing cancer, cold fusion, quantum computing, none of these have been solved, but there has been a ton of intensive research in the last 20 years, and good progress, in each of these fields.
- KincadeHoney 3y ago
  this is recent https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38824-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38824-8 Progress is being made however admittingly it is very slow. Cryonics research has significantly less funding than any other type of longevity research (probably 100x, 1000x?) When I called Cryonics Institute I was told they received less than $1,000 in donations during 2023. Compare that to SENS or Methuselah Foundation there is huge disparity. I believe with more funding we would see a lot more progress.
  - p1esk 3y ago
    Thanks, good to see a decent paper on this. I really hope AI will speed up this research. Are CI and Alcor still the only two companies doing human cryopreservation? Shouldn’t they be doing some of this research using customer money (charging more)?
    - davidgerard 3y ago
      There's KrioRus, but they're a little odd. https://officercia.substack.com/p/they-threatened-to-freeze-me-alive https://officercia.substack.com/p/they-threatened-to-freeze-...

p1esk 3y ago

The link you posted says the last improvement to their process was done in 2004. So in the last 20 years, the vitrification has not gotten better. Is it because no one has been doing any research, and if so, why not? If you look at any other hard but important problem: curing cancer, cold fusion, quantum computing, none of these have been solved, but there has been a ton of intensive research in the last 20 years, and good progress, in each of these fields.

KincadeHoney 3y ago
this is recent https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38824-8 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-38824-8 Progress is being made however admittingly it is very slow. Cryonics research has significantly less funding than any other type of longevity research (probably 100x, 1000x?) When I called Cryonics Institute I was told they received less than $1,000 in donations during 2023. Compare that to SENS or Methuselah Foundation there is huge disparity. I believe with more funding we would see a lot more progress.
- p1esk 3y ago
  Thanks, good to see a decent paper on this. I really hope AI will speed up this research. Are CI and Alcor still the only two companies doing human cryopreservation? Shouldn’t they be doing some of this research using customer money (charging more)?
  - davidgerard 3y ago
    There's KrioRus, but they're a little odd. https://officercia.substack.com/p/they-threatened-to-freeze-me-alive https://officercia.substack.com/p/they-threatened-to-freeze-...